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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1971-11-25

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1971-11-25, page 01

VOL. 49 NO. 48
NOVEMBER 25, 1971 -KISLEV 7
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Twenty three Soviet Georgian ¦ Jewish families have reported that their homies were- demolished 16months ago for new housing that has not been started on. Tliie Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry said the families recounted their jdight in a letter to Communist Party Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev. The plea said the families-are now in an "exceedingly . difficult situation" and that their appeals to the local ' authorities in Kareii village have "all been in vain. V nie letter, signed by 17 of the 23 Jewish homeowners, also stated: "We are in such a difficiilt situation.that it _ is impossible to describe it... We cannot endure this - any longer... We are afraid of tomorrow."
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TEL AVIV (JTA)--Moshe Gilboa, Israel's Copsul General in Atlanta, Ga., said here that the furor over the case of the Black Hetarews in Dimona is harming Israel's image among American Blacks in the South. . He noted that the American press, in blowing up current tensions in the N^ev city, has'harmed relations between Jews and Blacks in the South — . relations Which \yere always .r^arded as good.
Dr. William Haber Speaker Al Dinner For Dr. Beckman
Dr. William Haber, Dean of th&Universi^ of Midiigan and President of American ORT Federation-WiU be the guest speaker at a dinner on Tuesday evening, Nov; 30, -honoring Dr. llieodore N. Becknian, it was announced by. Mr., Ben Balshone, President of the Columbus Chapter of American Men's ORT.
Dean Haber has been involved with the Jewish community through inore than three decades of voluntary service in 'many areas. In 1948 he served as advisor on Jewish Affaiirs to Genei-al Lucius D. Clay, Commander-in-Chief of the ^_
Report China Intends Top Priority For Mid^East
Testimony Raises Differences On House Soviet Jewry Resolution
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The State Department believes that a
' Congressional resolution on the denial of Soviet Jews' rights "would be ap¬ propriate," but "claims that Soviet Jews as a community are living in a state of tenror seem to -be overdrawn," a
Department official said Nov. 9. The latter remark by Richard T. Davies, Deputy Assistant Secretary . for European Affairs, beforethe House Foreign Affairs Committee's European ^subcommittee raised the only serious difference of opinion between a witness
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DR. WILLIAM HABER
U.S.'Zone of Germany. In 1955 he received the Hunidi^tarian Award of the
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UNITED NA-nONS, N.V. (JTA)—The delegation of the People's Republic of China intends to make the Middle E^st issue a top priority item on its agenda, 'according to political ob¬ servers here: The Chinese also will be mobilizing all their resources to unit^ the non-aligned "Third Worid" countries to support a pro- Arab position.
' Thip view has been con¬ firmed by a report in Cairo's
.semi-official newspaper Al Ahram. According to the report Chinese diplomats, stopping in Cairo on their way here; told a high official of the Foreign Ministry that the Chinese support Egypt's struggle against "in¬ ternational imperialism" and Egypt's efforts to obtain a just peace" in the Middle East. Al Ahram also reported that CHiina and Egypt have had "importont
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Leading Authority On Soviet Jewisli Affairs To Spealc To Young Leaders
Dr. William Korey of New
York City will be the guest
speake^,.^and .'disqussion
leader a^j^e final ^^^ion of
the YQung Leadership 'Development Series, on
Wednesday, Dec.- 1, at 8
o'clock at the home of Mr.
and-Mrs. Stanley Maybruck,
138^ Sherbrook Drive. CSiairman for the evening
will be Jerry Kroos, and
hospitality chairman is Mrs.
Mark Mirken. This virill be Chapter IV in
the Taleof Thhee Cities, 1071
SerieSi, entitled Soviet-
Jewry-M<>scow, "Recalled to
Life," symbolic of the
Russian Jews .\yhp have
alinost literally been rescued /
from assimilation and '
complete acculturation into
the SoVifet way "of life. They jhave emerged from what
Elie Wiesel called being
"Jews of" Silence" into
rebellion against the
government, and have called
for the right to live as Jews,
and, if they so desire, to
emigrate to Israel. Dr. Korey is one.of the
most prominent authorities
on Soviet Jewish affairs, and '
deals with the problem daily,
in his (opacity as Director of.
the New York Bureau of the
B'nai B'rith International
Coiincil, and its represen-
and the subcommittee chairman Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D.N.Y.). The House unit was heacihg testimony on pending legislation expressing 'C(Hicem over the USSR's treatment of its Jewish citizens. Rosenthal was also astonished at Davies' en¬ dorsement of a Soviet Jewry bill sponsored by Rep. Frank Annunzio (D.IU.) as "an excellent" vehicle through which to convey the concern of the Congress over: this
ivas the
Rosenthal'j(ioted that niinlio.'bill wa only oriel'Viiniong the ap-
issue. ' the Anriii'i
DR. WILLIAM KOREY
tdfive-to fhe United Nations. He has been on several special survey missions abroad, including visits to Turkey and Eastern Europe, Israel ahd Western Europe. His articles and stodies on the problems of the Jews in the Soviet Union have ap^ peared in many leading journals, and he has ad¬ dressed leading scholarly bodies on this subject. He is the winner of numerous honors and fellowships, including the Ford Foun¬ dation Fellowship and Carnegi Research Grant.
Mrs. Ronald Rudolph,
Chairman of Young
' Leadership Development for
the year, stated: "We are
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proximately 200 -introduced so far ^which d<5er~~not specif icatty—inention emigration. DaVies replied that the State Department's "suggested modifications" include reference to emigration. Rosenthal stated: "We intend to produce a resolution before the end of tins session of Congress (because) we must view these deprivations not as citizens of one country viewing the abhor^fed behavior of ' another government butas the denial of human 'rights (which) must be condemned wherever and whenever it occurs."
Sol Polansky, a Foreign Service officer testifying with Davies, backed Davies' denial of a Soviet Jewish "state of terror" but ad-
National Award Received
Blood Drive Enrolls 174 Donors
The J^ish Community blood drive was a success, enrolling 174 donors on B- bay, Nov. 17, at the Jewish Center.
The success in meeting quota needs- will ensure continuation of the Blood Donor program, providing free blood to the ^lewi^ Community.
Those donors who couldn't make it on B-Day, and those who showed up and were unaUe to be taken care of, are urged to arrange to donate at the Red Cross Blood Center^ 995 East Broad St. This will help build up our
quota reserve.
The Blood Donor Council , expresses thankB to - the following organizations:
' which worked so hard on the project: All the Temple Sisterhoods.
, and Brotherhoods; the B'nai B'rith Men's and Women's Divisions; Jewish War Veterans Men's and- Women'? groOps, Hadassah and OIIT Chapters, National OHincii Jewish Women, and Columlius Chapter of Bran^j^i^. Thank.^ also are due th^.many donors Who waited patiently while they were being processed at the Center.
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.UJFC Receives National Honors: Shown above, left to right, local UJFC leadership, Mrs. J. Maynard Kaplan,, 1972 Campaign CSiairman of Women's Division;- Mrsr Ben Goodman, 1972 Campaign Co- Oiairman; Mrs. Louis J, Krakoff/ President of Women's Division; Norman Meizlish, UJFC Vice President, and the Chairman of the Public Relations .Committee of the CUFWF. "The Columbus UJFC received-a national award for the Best Year-Round T. V. Programming for the bne-Hbur documentory "And The Name Shall be Israel," produced in cooperation wIthWBNS-TV.
mitted that "Jews do feel they are being discriminated . against." Polansky ..who is. Jewish also said he was "not at all p^^uaded that there were enough Yiddish- speaking Soviet Jews' to make Yiddish broadcasting over the Voice of America "worthwhile." Asked af¬ terwards by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent to comment on a report in Pravda, the Soviet' Communist Party newspaper, that 380,000 Soviet Jews consider Yiddish . their first language, Polansky said he was unaware of. the report.
Other witnesses included Rep. William F. Ryan (D.N.Y.), Rep. James H. Scheuer (D.N.Y.); Rep. John Buchanan (R.Ala.); F. ¦ Lee Bailey, the laWyer, representing the League of Reparation of Russian Jewry{ Rabbi Zev Segal of the Essex County (N.J.) Conference on Soviet Jewry, and Bertram zWeibon, national vice chairman of the Jewish Defense League. Zweibon said: "Violence is always bad but sometimes necessary. The League favors that which keeps the plight of Soviet Jews before the world. Even violence." (In New York, the American Jewish Congcess declared it_ was "shocked
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Tifereth Israel Bonds To Honor Past President, Wife
MR. & MRS. RICHARD LIEBERMAN
Samuel L. Oppenheimer, Israel Bond (Siairman of Congregation "nfereth Israel announced the congr^ation will hold a festive dinner.:: honoring the immediate past'~ president of. ' the
Congregation, Richard Lieberman and his wife Evelyn Lieberman on Wednesday, Dec. 15. The dinner will also help celebrate the BSth birthday of Oavid Ben-Gurion, the creator of Israel Bonds. "Hie dinner, to be held in'the temple social hall, will
reinstitute -the congregation's efforts to promote the sale of Israel Bonds.' For many years Congn^ationTiferetfi Israel not only held: High Holiday appeals and dimiers for- Israel Bonds but siqiplied the city wide chairmen of the Israel Bond Campaign.
Mr. Lieberman, president of Ludlow Sales, has been a life long member of Tifereth Israel iand served three years as the congregation's president. He is currently
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VOL. 49 NO. 48
NOVEMBER 25, 1971 -KISLEV 7
. trtttti It AaHifM «ij Iniht Unh
NEW YORK (JTA)—Twenty three Soviet Georgian ¦ Jewish families have reported that their homies were- demolished 16months ago for new housing that has not been started on. Tliie Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry said the families recounted their jdight in a letter to Communist Party Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev. The plea said the families-are now in an "exceedingly . difficult situation" and that their appeals to the local ' authorities in Kareii village have "all been in vain. V nie letter, signed by 17 of the 23 Jewish homeowners, also stated: "We are in such a difficiilt situation.that it _ is impossible to describe it... We cannot endure this - any longer... We are afraid of tomorrow."
t , ' ¦ :
TEL AVIV (JTA)--Moshe Gilboa, Israel's Copsul General in Atlanta, Ga., said here that the furor over the case of the Black Hetarews in Dimona is harming Israel's image among American Blacks in the South. . He noted that the American press, in blowing up current tensions in the N^ev city, has'harmed relations between Jews and Blacks in the South — . relations Which \yere always .r^arded as good.
Dr. William Haber Speaker Al Dinner For Dr. Beckman
Dr. William Haber, Dean of th&Universi^ of Midiigan and President of American ORT Federation-WiU be the guest speaker at a dinner on Tuesday evening, Nov; 30, -honoring Dr. llieodore N. Becknian, it was announced by. Mr., Ben Balshone, President of the Columbus Chapter of American Men's ORT.
Dean Haber has been involved with the Jewish community through inore than three decades of voluntary service in 'many areas. In 1948 he served as advisor on Jewish Affaiirs to Genei-al Lucius D. Clay, Commander-in-Chief of the ^_
Report China Intends Top Priority For Mid^East
Testimony Raises Differences On House Soviet Jewry Resolution
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The State Department believes that a
' Congressional resolution on the denial of Soviet Jews' rights "would be ap¬ propriate," but "claims that Soviet Jews as a community are living in a state of tenror seem to -be overdrawn," a
Department official said Nov. 9. The latter remark by Richard T. Davies, Deputy Assistant Secretary . for European Affairs, beforethe House Foreign Affairs Committee's European ^subcommittee raised the only serious difference of opinion between a witness
ft
DR. WILLIAM HABER
U.S.'Zone of Germany. In 1955 he received the Hunidi^tarian Award of the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 11)
UNITED NA-nONS, N.V. (JTA)—The delegation of the People's Republic of China intends to make the Middle E^st issue a top priority item on its agenda, 'according to political ob¬ servers here: The Chinese also will be mobilizing all their resources to unit^ the non-aligned "Third Worid" countries to support a pro- Arab position.
' Thip view has been con¬ firmed by a report in Cairo's
.semi-official newspaper Al Ahram. According to the report Chinese diplomats, stopping in Cairo on their way here; told a high official of the Foreign Ministry that the Chinese support Egypt's struggle against "in¬ ternational imperialism" and Egypt's efforts to obtain a just peace" in the Middle East. Al Ahram also reported that CHiina and Egypt have had "importont
(CONTINUED ON PAGE II)
Leading Authority On Soviet Jewisli Affairs To Spealc To Young Leaders
Dr. William Korey of New
York City will be the guest
speake^,.^and .'disqussion
leader a^j^e final ^^^ion of
the YQung Leadership 'Development Series, on
Wednesday, Dec.- 1, at 8
o'clock at the home of Mr.
and-Mrs. Stanley Maybruck,
138^ Sherbrook Drive. CSiairman for the evening
will be Jerry Kroos, and
hospitality chairman is Mrs.
Mark Mirken. This virill be Chapter IV in
the Taleof Thhee Cities, 1071
SerieSi, entitled Soviet-
Jewry-M<>scow, "Recalled to
Life," symbolic of the
Russian Jews .\yhp have
alinost literally been rescued /
from assimilation and '
complete acculturation into
the SoVifet way "of life. They jhave emerged from what
Elie Wiesel called being
"Jews of" Silence" into
rebellion against the
government, and have called
for the right to live as Jews,
and, if they so desire, to
emigrate to Israel. Dr. Korey is one.of the
most prominent authorities
on Soviet Jewish affairs, and '
deals with the problem daily,
in his (opacity as Director of.
the New York Bureau of the
B'nai B'rith International
Coiincil, and its represen-
and the subcommittee chairman Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D.N.Y.). The House unit was heacihg testimony on pending legislation expressing 'C(Hicem over the USSR's treatment of its Jewish citizens. Rosenthal was also astonished at Davies' en¬ dorsement of a Soviet Jewry bill sponsored by Rep. Frank Annunzio (D.IU.) as "an excellent" vehicle through which to convey the concern of the Congress over: this
ivas the
Rosenthal'j(ioted that niinlio.'bill wa only oriel'Viiniong the ap-
issue. ' the Anriii'i
DR. WILLIAM KOREY
tdfive-to fhe United Nations. He has been on several special survey missions abroad, including visits to Turkey and Eastern Europe, Israel ahd Western Europe. His articles and stodies on the problems of the Jews in the Soviet Union have ap^ peared in many leading journals, and he has ad¬ dressed leading scholarly bodies on this subject. He is the winner of numerous honors and fellowships, including the Ford Foun¬ dation Fellowship and Carnegi Research Grant.
Mrs. Ronald Rudolph,
Chairman of Young
' Leadership Development for
the year, stated: "We are
(CONTINUED ON PAGE ID
proximately 200 -introduced so far ^which d<5er~~not specif icatty—inention emigration. DaVies replied that the State Department's "suggested modifications" include reference to emigration. Rosenthal stated: "We intend to produce a resolution before the end of tins session of Congress (because) we must view these deprivations not as citizens of one country viewing the abhor^fed behavior of ' another government butas the denial of human 'rights (which) must be condemned wherever and whenever it occurs."
Sol Polansky, a Foreign Service officer testifying with Davies, backed Davies' denial of a Soviet Jewish "state of terror" but ad-
National Award Received
Blood Drive Enrolls 174 Donors
The J^ish Community blood drive was a success, enrolling 174 donors on B- bay, Nov. 17, at the Jewish Center.
The success in meeting quota needs- will ensure continuation of the Blood Donor program, providing free blood to the ^lewi^ Community.
Those donors who couldn't make it on B-Day, and those who showed up and were unaUe to be taken care of, are urged to arrange to donate at the Red Cross Blood Center^ 995 East Broad St. This will help build up our
quota reserve.
The Blood Donor Council , expresses thankB to - the following organizations:
' which worked so hard on the project: All the Temple Sisterhoods.
, and Brotherhoods; the B'nai B'rith Men's and Women's Divisions; Jewish War Veterans Men's and- Women'? groOps, Hadassah and OIIT Chapters, National OHincii Jewish Women, and Columlius Chapter of Bran^j^i^. Thank.^ also are due th^.many donors Who waited patiently while they were being processed at the Center.
•. /
.UJFC Receives National Honors: Shown above, left to right, local UJFC leadership, Mrs. J. Maynard Kaplan,, 1972 Campaign CSiairman of Women's Division;- Mrsr Ben Goodman, 1972 Campaign Co- Oiairman; Mrs. Louis J, Krakoff/ President of Women's Division; Norman Meizlish, UJFC Vice President, and the Chairman of the Public Relations .Committee of the CUFWF. "The Columbus UJFC received-a national award for the Best Year-Round T. V. Programming for the bne-Hbur documentory "And The Name Shall be Israel," produced in cooperation wIthWBNS-TV.
mitted that "Jews do feel they are being discriminated . against." Polansky ..who is. Jewish also said he was "not at all p^^uaded that there were enough Yiddish- speaking Soviet Jews' to make Yiddish broadcasting over the Voice of America "worthwhile." Asked af¬ terwards by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent to comment on a report in Pravda, the Soviet' Communist Party newspaper, that 380,000 Soviet Jews consider Yiddish . their first language, Polansky said he was unaware of. the report.
Other witnesses included Rep. William F. Ryan (D.N.Y.), Rep. James H. Scheuer (D.N.Y.); Rep. John Buchanan (R.Ala.); F. ¦ Lee Bailey, the laWyer, representing the League of Reparation of Russian Jewry{ Rabbi Zev Segal of the Essex County (N.J.) Conference on Soviet Jewry, and Bertram zWeibon, national vice chairman of the Jewish Defense League. Zweibon said: "Violence is always bad but sometimes necessary. The League favors that which keeps the plight of Soviet Jews before the world. Even violence." (In New York, the American Jewish Congcess declared it_ was "shocked
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 3)
Tifereth Israel Bonds To Honor Past President, Wife
MR. & MRS. RICHARD LIEBERMAN
Samuel L. Oppenheimer, Israel Bond (Siairman of Congregation "nfereth Israel announced the congr^ation will hold a festive dinner.:: honoring the immediate past'~ president of. ' the
Congregation, Richard Lieberman and his wife Evelyn Lieberman on Wednesday, Dec. 15. The dinner will also help celebrate the BSth birthday of Oavid Ben-Gurion, the creator of Israel Bonds. "Hie dinner, to be held in'the temple social hall, will
reinstitute -the congregation's efforts to promote the sale of Israel Bonds.' For many years Congn^ationTiferetfi Israel not only held: High Holiday appeals and dimiers for- Israel Bonds but siqiplied the city wide chairmen of the Israel Bond Campaign.
Mr. Lieberman, president of Ludlow Sales, has been a life long member of Tifereth Israel iand served three years as the congregation's president. He is currently
(CONTINUED ON PAGE II)
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